Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-02
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WASHINGTON, D. c., March 2, 1887.

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Special Correspondence of the Alexa GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 2, 1887
General ". Il. Payne Of Warrenton, Vir-
pinja. was in the city to day 10 talkl : g
with the GAzHTTE' correspondent about the
nrohab,e action ofthe called session oftheLeg-
isloture of his State with reference to the debt
question of that State, be sAid he was both
doubtful ard fearful Of that action, as not
withstanding any accommodation the Gov
ernor mil make, there were men in the
legislature who would favor the repuda-
ton of the whole principal of the debt, aud
that the popular feeling in the counties of
the State was so much 10 accord with them,
that he feared a proposition to that effect
would be adopted. The General also said
that for some time past he had thought that
Malone would come out on platform con.
Tossing that his readiustment measure was
failure by reason OF the decision of the U. ;.
Supreme Court, and advising the election OF
a republican President in favor of paying the
debt out of the o. S. Treasury. He said he did
not think any of the several measures he
had heard proposed for preventing the ac-
ceptance Of coupons would be effective IN
.JuGge Bonds court. In this connection It
mey be said that the feeling in favor OF the
assumption of the debt by the national Gov
eminent is increasing, and that such lawyers
in the Senate as Mr.. Evarts, republican, ana
Mr.. George, democrat, have said they Wouio
vote for bill to that effect.
Judge Richardson, of the Z. >. Court OF
Appeals, who is still in the city, says he IS
out OF politics and doesn't think judge has
any thing TO DO in them, but that Us cltl-
zen he doesn't see how the extra session OF
l.. nj q
democratic party. The Judge says that
notwithstanding all the newspaper accounts
of the prosperity Of the South, the farmers
of his State are worse oil to-day than they
were Immediately after the close of the war.
The agricultural bill that was referred to
conference committee in the House last
Monday night, was the agricultural appro-
priation bill, and not the bill to create q
secretary of agriculture, as was inferred by
the report in the Congressional Record. Mr..
Hatch, who has the latter bill in charge,
| told the GAZETTE's correspondent to-day
that that bill was still in his desk, End that
he feared it would be impossible to get it
I'D at this session. Should itpass, i. is ru-
moreG to day that the desire of the Presi.
dent to reward Mr.. Morrison is SO great
that he is thinking of offering him the place
created by it. Should it be fact that Mr.
| Morrison would be rendered the position
| the relations between him aud Mr.. Carlisle
are such lha; il is not doubted MIR. Hatch
would he recognized to take up the bill and
pass it.
A crowd of fashionably dressed women
congregated around the door of the Senate
military committee room yesterday, anxious
20 hear the testimony Of Mrs. DR.. Pavy
against the confirmation of Captain Greedy
as chief signal officer, but they were ex
cluded by the committee, Senator Harrison
saying lit was no Emmons trial"
During the debate on the bill to retaliate
upon Canada in the House to day, MIR
Daniel, of Virginia, said that in difficulty
with Great Britain on that subject, the South
would rally to a man in support Of New
England.
the traction railroad bill for this city ha:
been amended by the Senate District com
mittee and is still on the Senate calendar
Should it reach the House and fail to be al
once referred, 10 conference committee, al
is very probable, it will not pass. 1t ha:
strong opposition, from the fact that should
! it pass il will reduce the tax on the present
street lines, and by allowing them to increase
their capital stock, reduce their present
large dividenjs which afford constant OBJ
! ect of attack.
The Senate committee on the District o.
Columbia at a special and short meeting thi:
morning voted TO report adversely upon the
nomination Of James Monroe Trotter, the
Boston colored man nominated by the Presi
dent to be recorder of deeds for the District
of Columbia. The vote was By no means 6
! party one, democrats rs well as republicans
deeming the action Of the President utterly
u,iustiable and grossly improper.
Up to 4:30 p. m. the President had not
signed the bill for the redemption of the
Trade dollar and, it was said at the Capitol
was considering the ACCESSIBILITY of recon-
mendng additional legislation upon thai
| bill Nor had he signed the anti-Mormor
| bill
Representative Gibson of West Virginia
saws a recent paragraph in this correspond
ence to the effect that he had been informed
at the postoffice department that no e1Con
federate could be promoted there, had been
copied extensively in the newspapers OF hi:
State, and that it is correct in every par
ticular:
In the House yesterday Mr.. Barbour pre-
sented the petition of the city council Of AL
exandria for relief from liability for failure
to transfer certain shares of the Alexandra
|
petition relating TO the claim of Richard f
Shrift, of Richmond county, Va. Mr.. Tuck
er presented the memorial of Il. c. Parson:
and others for the payment by the Govern
ment of the public debt of Virginia.
A member of the Senate library committee,
which has reported bin appropriatng 30,OOt
| for monument at Wakefield, Virginia, the birth
place of Washington, says the session is too neal
c,ose for that bill to pass 1t is also for the same
reason hardly probable that the bill for the mon
ument to the mother of Washington at Fredericks
burg wi be passed at this session.
Coneressmen-elect Brown, of the Dsnville, and
Hopkins, of the Lynchburg district, in Virginia
are in the city to-day. The former says the pros
pect in his district is good for the success OF the
Malone legislative ticket next fall
Immediately after the congressional adjourn.
mem Senator Sherman will go to Florida and
from there to Cuba, and on his return from Cuba
by the same route, will make southern tour,
stopping at Nashville, Tennessee and making a